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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-04-28
PuNeEnT PARAGRAPHS.

If some men had to sseat their
words their health would be ruined
forever.-N. z. Tribune. 5 as,sne ! y
! The greatest reforner of the age
was the inventor Of the hustle, which
has reformed nearly everywoman. a
"A youth is conscious how little his
elders know until he gets to be an elder
himself Then he realizes the def
ciencies of youth--Puck. wa a
Wife You ought to stop, in and
see the doctor, Henry, and get some
medicine for your throat.n Husband
WHAT! when there are several bot
ties of medicine, not yet half taken, in
the houseP We must be more econom-
ical" ,,-sst,.s.ss s.a.g.ss....s.... s
II -"Is there much water in the cistern.
BiddyP" inquired gentleman of his
Irish girl. as she came up from the
cellar. aIt is full ON the bottom, sir,
but.there's none at all on the top" was
the reply.
e The Boston girl -
Her eyes are hid behind pair OF glasses,
@ But swift she glances at him as she passes
But But not &. 70 see see gSSa looks he possesses
Boston Courier.
To lift the hat with ease and grace
is considered quite an accomplishment.
Certain East-side boarding-houses want
to catch the fellow who lifts half a
dozen hats at time whenever the hall
door is left unlocked. = TEXAS Siftings
--s.Wbat was the rush last night, old
man? You left ahead of the party"
'.Did II thought / took all the heads
of the whole party with me from the
size of the one have on me this morn.
ing" "Only head? Bless you, goton
q full bust. ''-Burdette..
Tender Lover-s.H How pensive your
Arabella looks this evening. There's
sort of introspective glance in her eye.
One would almost fancy that there is
| some great sorrow gnawing at her
heart" Brutal Brother-.So there is,
Joe. Her poodle dogs got the mango"
T Amateur. tenor (who has been
abroad -'.Ah! my man, you are an
eye doctor, I understand Oculist--
Il am an oculist, SIR Eyes; well,
what want to know is whether there is
any way to prevent the eyes from filing
up with water while singing" 'None
that I knew of except to steel your
heart against the sufferings of the audi-
ence." a a
+ --Gertrude-..You ought to hear
Rubinstein's Ocean Symphony Cousin
Tom. 1t is perfectly grand" Cousin
Tom-ssI should think fer that sym
phony the musicians must have theii
instruments tuned to the high Cs. And
then Cousin Tom wondered why Ger.
trude gave him such cold, stony stare
| and would not tell him any thing more
about Rubinstein's symphony or any
!! other music.--Basto,s Post
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-04-28
- MIMETlC INSECTS
Butterflies Whose Leaf Like Wings Initiate
this Foliage That Shelters Them.

There is certain butterfly in the
Malay Archipelago Gts learned name,
if any body wishes to be formally in
troduced, is Katlinaa paralekta) which
always rests among dead or dry leaves,
and has itself leaf-like wings, all spotted
over at intervals with wee speckles to
initiate the tiny spots of fungi on the
foliage it resembles. The well-known
stick and leaf insects from the same
rich neighborhood in like manner ex-
actly mimic the twigs and leaves Of the
forest among which they lurk; some OF
them look for all the world like little
bits of walking bamboo, while others
appear in all varieties of hue, as If
opening buds and full-blown leaves and
pieces Of yellow foliage sprinkled with
the tints and molds of decay had of a
sudden raised themselves erect upon
six legs and begun sincontinently to
perambulate the Malayan woodlands
like vegetable Frankensteins in all their
glory. The larva of one such deceptive
insect, observed in Nicaragua by sharp
eyed MIR. Belt, appeared at fir,stsight like
amere fragment of the moss on which it
rested, its body being all prolonged
into little thread-lke green tilaments.
precisely initiating the foliage around
it. Once more, there are common flies
which secure protection for themselves
by growing into the counterfeit pre-
sentiment of wasps or hornets, and so
obtaining immunity from the attacks
of birds or animals. Many Of these
curiously mimetic insects are banded
with yellow and black in the very image
of their singing originals. and have
their tails sharpened, IN terrorem, into
pretended sting, to give point and
verisimilitude to the deceptive reseni-
blance. More curious still, certain
South American butterflies of perfect
ly inoffensive and edible family mimic
in every spot and line of color sundry
other butterflies of an utterly unrelated
and fundamentally dissimilar type, bu
of so disagreeable a taste as never t.
be eaten by birds or lizards. - Corakil
Magazine.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-04-28
EARLY EARTHQUAKES.
Extinct Volcanoes Buried Under Thousands
81 sesFsszss of Feet of Sediment. sgw{


q ssfgs of Feet of Sediment. grf9
Two periods stand out with especial
prominence for the magnitude Of their
conclusions, and for the profound in
Huence which these have had upon the
scenery of England. The first of these
periods lies far back in the dim eras of
geological history. In the earliest
glimpse that is, obtainable of primeval
Britain we can family descry a few
scattered islets, bare perhaps of vegeta
zion, or at least clothed onlyxith plants
of humble grade, such as club moses
and ferns. Round these rocky prom
Hinences wide but shallow sea swept
eastward across what is. now Europe,
with here and there ridge or island
marking where some one of the great
mountain chains of the Continent have
since been upreareds To the north lay
a mass of land that stretched across
where Scandinavia and Finland now.
lie, and may also have extended west
ward into America wide arctic con-
hnent out of whose waste came the
materials that have served as the
foundations for the superstructure both
of Europe and of North America.
Spreading eastward and southwark
across the site of the European Cont
(nent, the sea, which was probably an
eastward extension of the original At
Iantic Ocean, received "a continental
supply of mud silt and sand, swept into
| it from the shores of its. islands and
from the northern land. Slowly its
floors sank down and the sediments
gathered there until the islands were
one by one submerged and buried under
an ever Increasing load of detritus. But
| as the supply Of sediment seems to have
kept pace. on the whole, with the de-
preston, the sea never became abysmal.
Its depth may not have greatly varied,
| but over its floor there came eventually
to be accumulated depth. of sediment
amounting to many thousands OF feet.
While these events were transpiring
| over the area of the future Europe a
long succession of submarine volcanic
outbursts took place in the west, across
the tract that now forms thesbasina OF
the Irish Sea. Thick sheets of lava and
copious showers ofaashes were poured
'orth, which spread out upon the floor
Of the sea, and probably in some cases
built themselves up into volcanic
islands. As one center of eruption died
out another would break forth from
where are now the hills of Waterford
and the headlands of PembrokeslIire
northward to the borders of Scotland
But the volcanic energy atlast ex.
pended itself. The volcanoes sank one
by one into the sea, and over their sub
merged streams of lava and hardened
sheets of ashes the sea-borne sand and
mud once more gathered. As the down
ward movement went on not only were
the volcanoes obliterated, but their very
sites were buried under thousands o
feet of sediment. Geikie, in Goot
Wnrde f8 ~ 81 e4& i
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-04-28
He Ito Pittsburgh heiress)--..Do va

He Ito Pittsburgh heiress)-''Do yoL
know Miss Wandergrift. whose father
is reported to be so very rich?h She
(glass and pig-iron)-"O, no, indeed:
The Wandergrifts do not belong to our
set at all! They are so new, you know!
Their money comes from natural gas"
--PMek.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-04-28

phere. Indeed, the ordinary Davy
lamp will ignite gas outside it if ex-
posed to an explosive current travelling
at Jess than four hundred feet per min
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-04-28
STRIKING A BALANCE.
Cost for the First Twelvemonth of the
Average "Silver-Spoon" Baby.

Average .Silver-Spoon" Baby.
Your silver spoon baby begins to
make the money fly quite early in his
career, as more than one indulgent
papa could testify. Babies are awfully
sweet, but the enthusiasm of careful
conservative business man is likely to
cool little when, at the end of the
first year of his new enterprise, he posts
up his books and strikes balance sheet
something like this:
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-04-28

1t has been discovered in France
thatsthe fatty matter of wool may be
transformed into substance, which
has been named 'sceroid,' having the
consistency and several properties Of
wax,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-04-28

All for the first twelVemonth of bit
of pink and white humanity that was
lucky-or unlucky-enough to be born
with silver spoon in its mouth. Chi
cdgo Herald
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-04-28
{ established July J, 1859
SONG OF THE GROCER.

", teas me not. the maiden cried,
.Such things do despice, sss
wish yon really would go weigh, ass
And from your knees would rice"
vt ran not help this coffee said, g.
For You have chilled me through;
Though you to me have given the sack.
No fairer flour ser grew. - .sss5 -
.Geas sssss-z9 r. ssssEs5asssg ss4s
.rhis soap has slipped away from me, sss
That can call you mine; s .7s -.
F,uf If the barrel be removed
Please drop to me line.
n mr@ "a q Ia - ~E#
ma scale the highest grade for you,
Or grind my way so fine
Whatever else gets mixed, you'll see
NV heart will round you twine.
VI shall not strive you to appeas,
Though this is butter blow,
Istill must think what might have bean 8
Had you not said me no." =
San Francisco Wasp.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-04-28
BOGUS MAPLE SlRUPs u
The Best Way for Farmers to Fight Dealers
i'm Adulterated Goods.

The Best Way for Farmers to Fight Dealers
i'm Adulterated Goods.
Prof. A. j. Cook points out the fac,
that while comparatively little genuine
maple sirup is made, it is well nigh inn
possible to go into any of the thousands
of grocery stores in this country with
out finding plenty of jars marked Pure
Maple Sirup." 1t is a story of fraud
and adulteration as wicked as that
practiced by the oleonargarine people.
Glucose sells for, less than 20 cents per
gallon. Mixed and doctored with a
little maple favoring, it is sold for
$1.00, This glucose is made from corn.
The grain is ground, the starch washed
out and heated with sulphuric acid.
The acid is afterward removed by the
use of lime, but the consumer never
knows how complete this removal is or
whether any of the acid remains in the
glucose he is called upon to eat. When
poorly prepared-and the consumer
never knows when, this condition oc-
glucose contains virulent poison
which viii surely injure the system.
Makers of pure maple sugar must con-
vince their patrons of their honesty.
The sweet they prepare in its pure state
will always command the highest price,
for it is a delicate luxury. The best
way to fight the bogusdealersis to war;
rant every can as strictly pure, to OBJ
serve the most scrupulous honesty and
to advertise in an attractive way
Rural NeW Yorker.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-09-10

10. U. S. History, Profs. j. NJ.
Gooch aud w. A. Fite.
II. How can our public schools be
made more efficient, Prof. A. G.
Meadows.
IL. Five Cases Of Percentage, Prof.
J. B. Cummings.
-. School Management, Prof. c.
Tn. Kellogg.
IA. English Grammar, Prof. j. w,
Stilwell.
Is. kindergarten, essay, Miss Ida
Finn.
16. Analysis and Proportion, Profs.
G. TIL, Kellogg and j. B. Reed.
II. Geography, Prof. Ed. Morton
IS. Needed reform in public school
system, Prof. G. R. MCGEE.
Committee of arrangement, DR.. T.
!. Happel, j. r. DeasOn, VIM. Gay
and r. z. Taylor. For music, Mrs
BenlOn and others.
With great earnestness, desire tC
thank the teachers for their prompts
ness in attending these institutes. The
interest is widening and deepening auc
an advance is made along the whole
line. Let us have full and stirring
meetings, both of teachers and people
j. g. WRIGHT, Supt.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-09-10
MEDINA MATTERS.

DR.. Williams and family returned
Yesterday from Crawford Spring,
where they have been spending sever
al weeks Cor health.
A protracted meeting is in progress
this week at the g. P. Church, con>
Quoted by Rev. j. R. Covey. Good
attendance,
Rev. T. L. Adams has gone to
Mason wells, where he hope 10 regain
bis health.
Mr.. NJ. Mulloy, our feather man,
had three fine horses killed by freight
train recently. The whole communi.
ty sympathizes with Mr.. Mulloy, in
his loss.
Charley Hogue, our barber, alb
seconded not long since leaving his
family, and at present writing has not
been heard of.
Miss Mamie Shepherd, Of Milan,
is visiting her cousin, Mrs. W. j..
Rust, this week and attending the
meeting.
Mr.. j. L. Mills and family, of Nor
wood, are visiting relatives here this
week.
Miss Mamie AtchisOn, of Lavinia,
is visiting friends this week.
Miss Emma Rigsbee, of Rutherford,
who has been visiting relatives in this
vicinity, returned home last week.
Miss Myrtle Grant is visiting Misses
Ella aud Minnie BrdsOng this week.
We are glad u learn through the
Exchange that Hon. W. W. Wade
and james K. Deason will address the
people Of this place on prohibition
Saturday Sept. 10. We like to see
the ball kept in motion and hope the
cause will triumph the 29th of Sep.
TENDER. Let everybody work faith
fully until after that date. Let US be
free people.
Mr., G. NJ. Merwin's aged mother
arrived from Washington Territory
last Wednesday, where she has been
visiting her children. She went there
abuut year ago and returned home
about twehty-pOunds heavier than
when she left here. We are glad to
welcome her back to old Tennessee.
SHORT STRAW.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-09-10
MILAN EXCHANGE
OVER THE COUNTY.

Prom the Trenton Herald.
Last Friday evening Luster Senter,
en- OF William Senter, District No. 2
Of this county, started on horseback
in search Of the cows, and not return
ing in proper time, his family grew
uneasy about him, and as they were
preparing to institute search for him,
his horse came up to the gate, very
muddy. Fears already entertained
then became alarming, as they were
sure some harm had been done the
boy; search having been begun about
shutdown, continued all night and I'M
til about s o'clock Saturday morning,
when Il horrible sight was discovered
The dead body of the little boy was
found lying in the bottom of a ravine,
badly III lshrd, bruised and broken, his
saddle and blanket lying across him.
The whole weight of the horse had
fallen across him, and he was supposed
never to have spoken or ever strug'
led.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-09-10
A Teachers, Institute

Will be held in Trenton on Saturday,
September 18th, 1887,
PROGRAM.
|. Address of Welcome, G. r.
MCGEE.
2 Spelling, Where and How tC
Teach, Miss Sallie Blakemore and T.
+. James.
3. Essay, Progress, Miss Blanche
James.
4. Reading, Miss B. Taylor and j
W. Thomas.
5, Penmanship, Miss Anna Dance
and Prof. Thos. Atkins.
6. Decimal and Common Fractions
Profs. j. w. Meadows and Z. L.
Boon,
Z. Language Lessons, Prot. j, B,
Reed and Miss Ida Finn.
s. Cube aud Square Root, Prof. j
X. MCGEE.
9. Duties of Teachers, essay, Miss
Maud Ivie.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-09-10
THE NASHVILLE BANNER.
The Cheapest and Most Popular News
paper Published iu Nashville.

The Nashville Banner has main
aimed its prestige as one of the new-
siest and most popular journals in the
south and as having larger cirrula>
ton than any daily in Tennessee. 1t
is II bold, outspoken, independent pa
per, fair and fearless in its discussions
and thoroughly impartial in presen-
ting the political or other news OF the
day. With new web perfectiog
press aud complete outfit of new
type, it will be greatly improved in
every department in 1887. The sub
scription price tor the daily is only
$500 per year, 81 60 for six months
and $3.50 for three months.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-09-10
HlSOLUellt Notice

HAVING this day suggested the insolven.
IL ey tf the estate Of 7. Is. BlankiRship to
the Clerk Of the County Court Of Gibson eoun-
ty, Tenn, all persons having claims against
said estate are hereby notified to file them
with said clerE. properly authenticated as re-
quired by law, OF OF before the LIST duy of jan
uary, ISIS, or they will be barred. This Sept.
9Th, 1857. +. J. BLANKINSHlP, Admir-.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-09-10
The Weekly Banner...75 Cents Year

The Weekly Banner--.75 Cents Year.
Is one of the best wesklies pub
lished, and is the cheapest. 1t is a
frst-class eight page newspaper, con-
taiuing all the news of the week and
much literary matter, children's de-
partment, etc. Only rs cents year.
Address BANNER PUBLISHING Co.,
Nashville, Tenn.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-05-12
NEW GOODS.
PRINTS,

a good assortment of Century Cloth, Ginghams
Shirtings, ready made Shirts a complete stock o
Ladies' and Gents
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-05-12

Here are some figures and rules very
handy to know and have at hand, i'm
the mind or on paper:
A rod is 164 feet or 81 yards.
A mile is 800 rods.
A mile is I760 yards.
A mile is $3.50 feet.
A square foot is I44 square inches.
A square yard contains nine square
feet.
A square rod is 2724 square feet.
An acre contains 43, $50 square feet.
An acre contains 1910 square yards.
An acre contains 100 square rods.
A section or square mile contains
$40 acres.
A quarter section contains I60 acres.
An acre is 10 rods wide by Is rods
long.
An acre is about 2O8a feet square.
A solid foot contains 1923 solid
inches.
A pint of water weighs one pound.
A solid foot of water weighes 623
pounds.
A gallon (of water) holds 23I solid
inches.
A gallon of milk weighs 8 pounds
and 10 ounces.
A pint (Of water) holds 215 solid IN
ches (28,
A barrel 3l3 gallons) holds Al solid
feet (4.2ID.
A solid foot contains nearly u solid
pints (7.48.)
A bushel (sIruck) contains 2, $50
inches.
A bushel (heaping) contains II
struck bushels.
A struck bushel contains about /
solid feet.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-05-12
The GaIedonialt.
Receiving Calls
Leisure Hour.

III
/ want to urge every woman who
s has any but very intimate friends to
8 have an afternoon in the week to re-
ceIve calls. Many women of wealth
and social position have adopted the
fashion, perhaps at first because it was
n fashion, but there is a great deal
more than that to be said i'm its favor,
and it is to the busy woman who has
every moment occupied with house
hold duties and yet keeps her hold on
social life, who will find it a saving of
5 time and n means of snatchiDg some
passing pleasure and repOse, from
what Otherwisedis an occasional vexa-
ton, whom the custom would help
most. The advantage of a receiving
day is often fully understood, but wO
men who make no social pretensiOn
shrink from it for fear of being thought
"airy" or aping fashion, but it is just
these women who might look OH it as
All absolute duty to themselves, and a
real kindness to their friends.
How many of us do not know what
it is to have an acquaintance, who is
both agreeable and would be welcome
call on us inst as we are doing some
thing that we are nervOusly anxious to
finnish, or that requires our undivided
attentiOn fortunate IL we are not in
the midst of some delicate cooking
that will spoil by leaving it. There
hre then but two things to dO-ask our
visitor right into the kitchen or work
room, or leave everything and go to
her just as We are anything is better
than to keep her waiting. If we do
the first, she will know that she has
just come at the wrong time, and feel
that she is intruding i'll spite of your
assurance that you wish her to stay,
and in fact If you go on busily with
your occupation you really cannot en-
/ Joy her visit, while if you leave every
thing, you will show the marks per-
haps of being very busy, and your
bnind will wander to the oven that was
just right, and is now cooling, or the
work that you wanted to finish 50 spe-
cially to day; in any case, you do not
Enjoy the visit, and your visitor will
feel that you have been very polite,
but that she may have chosen a better
lime.
By having a "day" you do away
with all this, and you save time. You
know the afternoon or evening when
gOur friends will call, and you arrange
accordingly. You need lose time only
for that day; you will have no exact
ing work in hand; you will be dressed
and ready, and stocking darning or
small mending, although not parlor
work, may be left to pick up and can
be put away without mental anxiety
when visitors arrive. If you have
made it known that you have given up
this day (and you can pleasantly also
give your reasons) you may have sew
oral calls at one time, while otherwise
each would have come separately and
separately taken your time. Your call
ers will probably enjoy meeting each
other, and you, with your mind quite
free, will be at your best.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-05-12
Missionary Sparks.

The Rev. Arthur Pierson gives the
following fine cpitome of missionary
work at the present time:
cover $50 languages and dialects are
now the clIariots 10 bear the gospel to
the ends of the earth. Pagan nations
which at the beginning of the century
were the slaves of vices that were eat
ing away their own vitals, now, them
selves evangelical, reach out hand
to save their pagan neighbors. India
is now a starry armament, sparkling
with missionary stations. Turkey is
planted with churches from the Golden
Horn To the Tigris and the Euphrates,
and the Cross is beginning to Outshine
the Gre scent. Syria educates young
men and women III her Christian
schools, seminaries AMI colleges, and
from her cOnsecratcd press scatters
through the dOminiOns of Mohammed
the million leaves of the tree of life
Japan strides in her seven -leagued
boots toward Christian civilization,
and with a rapidity that rivals apostol-
ic days. Africa is girdled, crossed,
penetrated by missionary bands, and is
drawing to itself the wondering gaze al
the world. Polyncsia's thousand
church spires point like fingers to la.
sky, and where the cannibal ovens
roasted the victims for the feast OF